The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1887-08-03
Cleveland and.Kenna.


Cleveland and Kenna would look
we'll for 1888 Opposed to Blaine
and Foraker it would look very
well. Cleveland and Kenna would
be invincible. There is an aeternal
fitness of things" about it that could
not be filter. The one, man whom
the people have weighed in the
balance and found not wanting; al
man whose fearlessness seems to be
unbounded; whose firmness in up
holding his convictions of the right
is a rock against which cavilling
opposition dashes and breaks into
foam and thin spray; yet, man
who is not stubborn in sticking to
a decision right or wrong, as the
prompt resembling of his flag order
illustrates-that was piece of NOR
al bravery which few Presidents
have equaled-a man whose honesty
even his most unfair enemies have
never questioned, which stands out
peerless star in the political sky;
a man whom the country has in
sensibly come to regard as staff.
He has made mistakes-and who
has not2-but they are trifing, in
significant, and the opposition can
not point to a single act of his
whereby the country's interests
have suffered one iota of harm
On the contrary they are forced
and it's bitter pill-to see this
honest, fearless man go on day after
day correcting the abuses of twenty
years of misrule and doing it with
a fixity of purpose that has made
him terror to dishonesty and has
set pack of frenzied ours barking
at his very shadow. So much for
the one.
The other-Kenna-the wheel
horse of Democracy, is the man who
came to the Administrations aid
when the keenest of its enemies
made a combined assault upon its in
tegrity-came to its aid in manly,
vigorous, iron-fisted, straight-from-
the-shoulder style that sent the great
sophists of the Republican party
shrinking and covering into the
realms of dead silence, whence
they have never dared to
emerge. Mr.. Kenna is man of
wondrous vigor, and indefatigable
worker, shrewd politician and a
foreible, brilliant speaker. He is a
man of the people, whose simplicity,
geniality and whole-souled nature
makes every man his friend. AS
a recognition of his ability the Dem
ocratic party has made him Chair
man of its National Committee.
So much for the other. He would
be more useful, perhaps, out of the
Vice Presidential chair, but the
same may be said of any good Dem
ocrat who would add strength to
the ticket. We do not urge that
this would make West Virginia
solid for the ticket; West Virginia
could not be soldier for Cleveland
than she is already.
Cleveland and Kenna would sweep
the country like wild fire. Opposed
to Blaine and Foraker or Blaine
and any one else it would sweep
the country like a hurricane
As to the Republican ticket which
in all human probability will be
headed by Blaine there is little use
in recapitulating. There is nothing
new about it. Blaine has gained
no strength since 1884 and the
general verdict is that he has lost
considerable. OF Mr.. Blaine,
Speaker Carlisle in an interview
printed in an other column says:
sHe is the most perfect living rep
resentative of the real principles
and methods of the partisan repub-
licanism which has characterized
the administration of the govern
ment for twenty years after the
close of the war, and if the party
intends to make an honest and ag-
gressive campaign in support of its
actual political faith it will COMPEL
him to take the nomination. Mr..
Blaine believes implicitly in the SOW
ereignty of the Republican party,
and in himself as the impersonation
of its power. He, therefore, claims
the allegiance and active support
of every professed Republican and
never forgives any one who opposes
him. This has alienated him from
a large number of prominent men
in his own party, but he is still
stronger inside the party than any
other man, and if nominated would
receive the full partisan Republican
vote; but he will never again receive
such q vote as he received in 1894